Forging business-labour partnerships : the emergence of sector councils in Canada / edited by Morley Gunderson and Andrew Sharpe.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Centre for the Study of Living Standards
Other Authors: Gunderson, Morley, 1945-
Sharpe, Andrew
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo : Published in cooperation with the Centre for the Study of Living Standards by University of Toronto Press, [1998], ©1998.
Subjects:
Works councils > Canada > Congresses.
Sector councils > Canada > Congresses.
Genre:
Congresses.
Online Access:
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Physical Description:xii, 1 unnumbered page, 332 pages ; 24 cm
Variant Title:
Forging business-labor partnerships.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction / Morley Gunderson and Andrew Sharpe
  • A historical perspective on sector councils / Gary Fletcher
  • The development of sector councils in Canada : an economic perspective / Douglas A. Smith
  • A labour perspective on sector councils / Kevin Hayes
  • A Canadian business perspective on sectoral human resource councils / Jock A. Finlayson
  • Human resources think for themselves : the experience of unions in the Sectoral Skills Council / David A. Wolfe and D'Arcy Martin
  • The configuration of sectoral human resource initiatives in Quebec in the 1990s / Jean Charest
  • Ontario's experiment with sectoral initiatives : labour market and industrial policy, 1985-1996 / Neil Bradford
  • The dynamics of joint governance : historical and institutional implications for sector councils / Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld
  • Sector councils as models of shared governance in training and adjustment / Carol Joyce Haddad
  • The Canadian Steel Trade and Employment Congress : old-fashioned labour-management cooperation or an innovation in joint governance? / Anil Verma, Kai Lamertz, and Peter Warrian
  • Program evaluation criteria applied to sector councils / Morley Gunderson and Andrew Sharpe
  • Sector councils and sectoral corporatism : viable? desirable? / Michael M. Atkinson and Cassandra W. Pervin
  • The role of sector initiatives in the Canadian industrial relations system / Richard P. Chaykowski
  • Conclusion : issues and lessons from the sector council experience / Morley Gunderson and Andrew Sharpe.